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Planned and conducted territorial fairs to promote Hawaii products. Function transferred to the Department of Economic Development in 1960.

1906 born in Russia.
left Russia during Russian revolution; educated at University of Washington, Harvard University, and University of Munich, Germany.
Professor of English, University of Idaho.

1937 Forester, Hawaii National Park; reporter, Hilo Tribune-Herald.
1938 March Reporter, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
1940 Reporter, Honolulu bureau, Associated Press
1941 Dec. 7 became Chief, Honolulu bureau, AP.
1942-1944 War correspondent accredited with U.S. Navy.
1944 Oct. returned to San Francisco; wrote books and newspaper and magazine articles.
1958 July Killed during native rebellion in Baghdad, Iraq.

The Employees’ Retirement System was established under the provisions of Act 55 of the Laws of 1925 of the Territory of Hawaii. The Reorganization Act of 1959 placed the Employees’ Retirement System under the administrative powers of the Department of Budget and Finance.

Emma Naʻea was born on January 2, 1836, to Fanny Young Kekelaokalani and George Naʻea. She was a moʻopuna wahine (granddaughter) on her mother's side, of John Young, advisor to Kamehameha Paiʻea and one of the first Europeans to come to Hawaiʻi. Her maternal grandmother was Kaoanaeha, whose father Ke'liimaikaʻi, was a brother of Kamehameha I. According to Hawaiian custom she had been promised before birth to Grace Kamaikui Young, a younger sister of Mōʻīwahine (Queen) Emma's mother, who was married to the English physician Thomas Charles Byde Rooke. Dr. Rooke' s Honolulu residence, known as Rooke House, was her home until her marriage, to which she returned after the death of her royal husband. She also had a residence in Nuʻuanu Valley called Hānaiakamalama, today known as the Queen Emma Summer Palace, and a cottage at Lawai, Kauaʻi. A confidential advisor of kings and chiefs,
Dr. Rooke devoted himself to the care of his adopted daughter, whose early education was received at the Royal School and from an English tutor, Mrs. Sarah Rhodes von Phister, who like Dr. Rooke was a member of the Church of England. On June 19, 1856, Emma, then known as Emma Rooke, was married to Kamehameha IV according to the Anglican rite and became Queen Emma. She proved a most devoted wife and
entered fully into her husband's plans and aspirations for the welfare of the Hawaiian people. Together they were particularly devoted to the establishment of The Queen's Hospital and the Anglican Church in Hawaii, called the Reformed Catholic Church. On May 5, 1858, her son, Albert Edward, the Prince of Hawaiʻi, was born, named for the Prince of Wales who was to have been his godfather. Four years later, on August 27, 1862, the child prince died. One year later Queen Emma's husband died. .After the king's death she took the name Kaleleonālani. Early in 1874 when King Lunalilo died without naming a successor, Queen Emma was a candidate for election to the throne, running against David Kalākaua, who won the election. The choice of the legislature was not the choice of a large number of the Hawaiian people and a riot ensued
on February 12, but Queen Emma generally acquiesced in her defeat. During the last few years of her life Emma busied herself in practical politics, social functions and her various philanthropies. She died at Honolulu on April 25, 1885.

1898--born Mary Elizabeth Pruitt, May 30, Tokyo, Japan, to Robert Lee and Josie Baugh Pruitt, American missionaries to Japan from Nashville, Tennessee.
1918--graduated from University of Wisconsin in journalism.
1920--married Joseph Rider Farrington, May 17; children: Beverly (Mrs. Hugh F. Robinson), and John.
1943--active in Republican Party affairs.
1945--president, 78th Club--wives of new members of Congress.
1946-1948--president, League of Republican Women in Washington, D.C.
1949--president, National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs, January 1 to January 1, 1953.
1954--elected in special election to complete unexpired term of her husband as delegate to congress, 83rd Congress, July 31.
--November 2, reelected for two year term, 84th Congress, as Hawaii's ninth delegate to congress.
1954-1956--responsible for such legislation as statehood bills, Hawaii Geophysics Institute, Territorial legislature reapportionment, City of Refuge National Historical Park.
--cited by Speaker of the U.S. House for achieving record of most bills passed in 84th Congress.
1984-Died in Honolulu, July 21.
Sources: Men and women of Hawaii, 1966. Hawaii State Archives, Name Index. Various items in collection.

1806 born in Greenfield, Massachusetts
1850 arrived as U.S. Consul to Hawaiian Islands
1853-09-05 / 1857-08-31 Minister of Finance, Hawaiian Kingdom
1854 – 1856 House of Nobles
1855-07-01 Board of Education, director
1856 envoy to U.S. to negotiate reciprocity treaty
1857-06-04 / 1877-02-01 Chief Justice, Supreme Court
1864 envoy to U.S. to negotiate reciprocity treaty
1864-08-20 Chancellor of the Kingdom
1869 envoy to U.S. to negotiate reciprocity treaty.
1874 Hawaiian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to U.S.
1875 exchanged ratification of reciprocity treaty
1875-06-04 Vice President, Queens Hospital, Trustee
n.d. Registrar of Conveyances, Oahu
1883-01-01 died at diplomatic reception at the White House

Born in Massachusetts. His will mentions brothers William, Nathan, and Thaddeus, sister Nabby Buckley, and niece Nabby Priest, wife of Asa Priest, of Littleton, Massachusetts. Dates for his arrival in Hawaiʻi vary from 1801 to after the War of 1812, but early enough to have know the Winships. From at least 1815 to 1825 he was master of several vessels active in the sandalwood, fur and general mercantile trade. Had a general store on lower Nuʻuanu Avenue. Formed a partnership with Josiah Thompson, Eliab Grimes & Co., terminated Dec. 15, 1842. Formed E.H. Grimes & Co. with his nephew Hiram Grimes, dissolved after his death according to his will. He married a Hawaiian woman, Uʻilani.
After 1844 he lived in California, where he died in 1848.